Extrementhusiast wrote:Also, I remember there being a direct glider-to-MWSS converter somewhere (I don't think it involved guns), which was known for a while.

I never learned p46 properly, so when I want a p46 circuit mechanism I generally just go poke around in one of Brice Due's metapixel patterns. (Anyone not familiar with them, see Golly's Patterns/Hashlife folder.)

It appears Brice built MWSSes starting with a 90-degree LWSS (left side, below), or used a gun to convert directly from glider to MWSS (right side):

Brice invented a lot of the key reactions he used, like the LWSS-creating HWSS flyby that builds the spaceship streams in the pixel area. There are quite a few other nice MWSS reactions in there, too, like Peter Rott's glider-creating flyby, and various boat-bit testers and toggles.

So I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's a direct glider-to-MWSS mechanism somewhere that Brice didn't know about or didn't use, but offhand I can't think where else to look for it.

This was a possible candidate for the p46 Rule-110 unit cell. It even supports MWSS-to-LWSS 90-degree turns, but does not support both B38/S238. And what's more: the applied technology is Glider-less - see unit cell here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3154The MWSS p46 reflector I know is a bit bigger (38x39).

Tanner's p46 gives another G->H. The repeat time is still 3*46 but there should be a wider choice of which conduit to use straight afterwards. The FNG can be kept providing you don't send another glider in 4*46 generations later. If you do then you end up with get a TL+glider collision instead (!).

chris_c wrote:Tanner's p46 gives another G->H. The repeat time is still 3*46 but there should be a wider choice of which conduit to use straight afterwards. The FNG can be kept providing you don't send another glider in 4*46 generations later. If you do then you end up with get a TL+glider collision instead (!).